There seems to be a misunderstanding here. Drugs are tools, technologies of the self, material objects that allow individuals to work on their bodies and minds in certain ways. Of course, they haven’t always been seen in this way, and they certainly haven’t always been available to the degree or in the same way as …
Monthly Archives: October 2009
Legitimate patients
A relatively young man hobbles, in good spirits, into a medical marijuana cooperative. He’s proud of having made it to the co-op today, his new aluminum cane giving him the style, confidence, and stability to find new places to interrogate, explore, and (yes) even to obtain his medicine. And mirrored windows notwithstanding, this place showed …
Habitually spaced
What does it mean to live in a space? And what do we do once we have recognized that the choices we make are not, after all, entirely our own? Are we left floating in a haze of it-doesn’t-matter? Are we left to choose between boundless freedom and the imprisonment of law? The choice between …
